Four defendants will have to wait to learn if they’ll stand trial

Jim Schultz/Record Searchlight Murder defendants Robert Pasillas and Litoshna Casia Wilson, front row, are shown with Jannamarie Jervelle Howard, top row, left, and Gina Miele, during a March hearing in Shasta County Superior Court.

Four defendants charged with murder in the Jan. 6 killing of a Redding man will have to wait until next week to learn whether they will be ordered to stand trial in that man's shooting death.

A preliminary hearing that got underway Friday in Shasta County Superior Court was continued to May 20 after it failed to finish by the end of the business day.

The four — Gina Miele, 45, of Redding, Robert Joseph Pasillas, 26, of Redding, Litoshna Casia Wilson, 33, of Shasta Lake and Jannamarie Jervelle Howard, 27, of Elk Grove — are all charged with murder in the death of 52-year-old Jon Boring of Redding.

They are also charged with first-degree residential burglary.

Two of three Redding police officers testified in the case on Friday. The final witness is expected to take the stand next week.

Defense attorneys attempted to show that the suspected gunman — Pasillas — and Boring shared a long and close friendship bordering on a father-and-son relationship and that the shooting may have been a tragic accident.

Also at the center of some of the hearing was the relationship Boring's girlfriend, Geraldine Walker, had with some of the defendants.

According to a police investigative report, Wilson admitted that she, her sister Howard, Pasillas and Miele met earlier on the day of the shooting to discuss how they could find and assault Walker.

Walker, a central figure in a 2012 homicide in Shasta Lake, has told police that Pasillas and a woman, now believed to be Howard, pushed their way into Boring's home.

Although she did not see a gun or actually see the shooting because she felt intimidated by the pair and tried to avoid eye contact with them, Walker said she heard a shot and saw her boyfriend fall to the floor with what appeared to be a gunshot wound to his chest.

Walker said Boring had earlier picked up a baseball bat and kept it by his side but he did not threaten anyone with it.